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Warner releasing A Clockwork Orange & Kubrick boxed set on Blu-ray May 31st

It'll be a good spring for classic movie lovers, as Warner Bros. has announced plans to deliver Stanley Kubrick's classic A Clockwork Orange (MSRP: $34.95) in a Digibook Blu-ray release, as well as a ten-disc, nine-movie boxed set of the director's movies. The boxed set (MSRP: $148.95) includes Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut and two other films not currently available or yet announced on Blu-ray in Lolita and Barry Lyndon. Check the press release after the break for a pic of the A Clockwork Orange set and details on extras and packaging for both releases.

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Clockwork Orange, A: 40th Anniversary (BD)Synopsis: Stomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating. Hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has a good time – at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess' novel. Controversial when first released, A Clockwork Orange won New York Film Critics Best Picture and Director Awards and earned four Oscar nominations,* including Best Picture. Its power still entices, shocks and holds us in its grasp.

Disc 2: • Jan Harlan's Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (Harlan is a world renown film producer and the brother of Christiane Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick's widow). Kubrick's career comes into sharp focus in this compelling documentary narrated by Tom Cruise. Fascinating footage glimpses Kubrick in his early years, at work on film sets and at home, augmented by candid commentary from collaborators, colleagues and family. • Career Profile O Lucky Malcolm! Featuring Malcolm McDowell

DR. STRANGELOVE (1964) "Accidental" nuclear apocalypse, anyone? Peter Sellers heads the cast of one of the most blazingly hilarious movies of all time. Special Features: • The Cold War: Picture-in-Picture and Pop-Up Trivia Track • No Fighting in the War Room: Dr. Strangelove and the Nuclear Threat • Inside the Making of Dr. Strangelove • Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and Dr. Strangelove • The Art of Stanley Kubrick from Short Films to Strangelove • An Interview with Robert McNamara • Original Split-Screen Interviews with Peter Sellers and George C. Scott

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) "The most awesome, beautiful and mentally stimulating science-fiction film of all time" (Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic). Special Features: • Commentary by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood • Documentary 2001: The Making of a Myth • Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 • Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 • 2001: A Space Odyssey – A Look Behind the Future and What Is Out There? • 2001: FX and Early Conceptual Artwork • Look: Stanley Kubrick! • Audio-Only Bonus: 1966 Kubrick Interview Conducted by Jeremy Bernstein